Addison, I18N Core WG,
On June 25 the Web Applications WG published a Last Call Working
Draft of the Widgets 1.0 Requirements document:
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<http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-widgets-reqs-20080625/>
Abstract: This document lists the design goals and requirements that
a specification would need to address in order to standardize various
aspects of widgets. Widgets are small client-side Web applications
for displaying and updating remote data, that are packaged in a way
to allow download and installation on a client machine, mobile phone,
or mobile Internet device. Typical examples of widgets include
clocks, CPU gauges, sticky notes, battery-life indicators, games, and
those that make use of Web services, like weather forecasters, news
readers, email checkers, photo albums and currency converters.
Introduction: A widget is an interactive single purpose application
for displaying and/or updating local data or data on the Web,
packaged in a way to allow a single download and installation on a
user's machine or mobile device. A widget may run as a stand alone
application (meaning it can run outside of a Web browser), or may be
embedded into a Web document. In this document, the runtime
environment on which a widget is run is referred to as a widget user
agent and a running widget is referred to as an instantiated widget.
Prior to instantiation, a widget exists as a widget resource. For
more information about widgets, see the Widget Landscape document.
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We would appreciate any comments your WG has on this LC document,
especially those requirements relevant to your WG's domain/scope. The
comment period ends 1 August 2008.
-Regards, Art Barstow